Alienware announces the first pre-built PC to feature AMD's flagship dual 3D V-Cache CPU

AMD's latest entry in its Ryzen 9000 X3D lineup is the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, the world's first CPU with a dual 3D V-Cache design. Dell was actually one of the first companies to accidentally confirm the CPU's existence before launch, listing the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 in one of its configurations before quickly calling it an error and claiming it was meant to be the Ryzen 7 9950X3D.

Today, Dell's Alienware X handle has officially announced the newest addition to its Area 51 desktop lineup, powered by the 16-core, 32-thread Zen 5 flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. This makes it the most powerful pre-built desktop the company has ever offered, with the processor bringing a dual X3D chiplet design, 192MB of L3 cache, and a total of 208MB of cache for superior gaming and productivity performance.

Interestingly, before the announcement, Dell had contacted VideoCardz to say that reports claiming the Area 51 would feature the 9950X3D2 were inaccurate. And now all of a sudden it has done exactly the opposite. Perhaps the company wanted a surprise announcement and was trying to keep things under wraps, but it could have simply not responded at all.

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That said, full specifications for the build remain scarce. However, based on the current flagship, it is likely to feature at least an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, up to 64GB of DDR5 dual-channel RAM, and up to 4TB of storage. That current configuration, built around the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, already sits at $5,299, so with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, we can also expect pricing to land north of that figure.

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 shares most of its specs with the standard 9950X3D but adds an extra 64MB of L3 cache through the dual V-Cache design and bumps the TDP up to 200W, making it the most powerful consumer desktop CPU AMD has produced. Dell has confirmed the Area 51 desktop with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will hit shelves on April 22.